Buying forest carbon offsets from Carbon Tanzania will not only minimise the environmental impact of your company operations and personal travel arrangements, but will also support ecological conservation and rural economic development in Tanzania.

57% percent of the world’s forests are located in developing countries.

90% of people

Nearly 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide depend on forests for their livelihoods.

Conversion of forests to farmland

Forest communities are often forced to resort to unsustainable practices such as harvesting trees for charcoal or using slash and burn techniques to convert forests to farmland which severely degrades the soil and results in deforestation.